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470Nitro
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Botswana Elephant hunt
#77177 - 21/04/07 04:18 PM

I just came back to hunt a little bit in Botswana. My father and me took a couple of elephants. Mine was 57 and the big one was 81 lbs. I'll post pics when ready

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http://video.google.es/videoplay?docid=-7113066717911638869&hl=es

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Re: Botswana Elephant hunt [Re: 470Nitro]
#77178 - 21/04/07 05:11 PM

Congrats! Looked like an awesome hunt. Delta? Who were you hunting with?

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Re: Botswana Elephant hunt [Re: 470Nitro]
#77179 - 21/04/07 06:01 PM

What kind of rifles and what calibers were you and your father using? BTW, nice vid clip and soundtrack.

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Re: Botswana Elephant hunt [Re: 470Nitro]
#77184 - 21/04/07 10:43 PM

Nice video! I like the delayed reaction ele drop.

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Re: Botswana Elephant hunt [Re: 500grains]
#77187 - 21/04/07 11:41 PM

81 lbs. Fantastic!

I just now have to wait for dialup to download the video ....

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470Nitro
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Re: Botswana Elephant hunt [Re: 470Nitro]
#77221 - 22/04/07 09:14 PM

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Looked like an awesome hunt. Delta? Who were you hunting with?

I been there in 2003, so I knew the place and the PH. This area in known like Tamafupa Pans, just north Botswana in the border with Zimbabwe. Ph is Tim Frayne who hunts every year his 8 elephants licenses with very high note.

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What kind of rifles and what calibers were you and your father using?

Since we traveled across 5 countries (Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana and SA), we only took one rifle, our Remington 700 cal. .416 RM and we used, as always, monolitic solid remington bullets.

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I just now have to wait for dialup to download the video

If you need any help, just tell me. Mean while, check this pictures.

57 and 55 lbs is not that bad

Otherwise, 81 and 76 lbs is not easy to found.

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Re: Botswana Elephant hunt [Re: 470Nitro]
#77222 - 22/04/07 10:28 PM

Very Nice!!!

I hope you'll share some more pictures of your hunt and extended trip when you get a chance!

Erik

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Re: Botswana Elephant hunt [Re: 470Nitro]
#77227 - 22/04/07 11:15 PM

Wonderful video and photos. Thanks you for posting them here for us to enjoy.

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Re: Botswana Elephant hunt [Re: mikeh416Rigby]
#77256 - 23/04/07 01:52 PM

Wow! Great. Thanks for posting the video and photos!

JPK

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Re: Botswana Elephant hunt [Re: 470Nitro]
#77263 - 23/04/07 10:37 PM

Congratulations to both you and your father!

thanks very much for posting the video and photos, very well done!

DT

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Re: Botswana Elephant hunt [Re: 470Nitro]
#77283 - 24/04/07 05:25 AM

Awsome video. I must have been a great hunt. Congratulations.

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470Nitro
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Re: Botswana Elephant hunt [Re: 470Nitro]
#77472 - 26/04/07 06:56 PM

There're big buffalos there

It was a nice bull

This area got lots of elephants

The trophies

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Re: Botswana Elephant hunt [Re: 470Nitro]
#77499 - 27/04/07 05:37 AM

Great photos 470!.... looks like you saw plenty of game up close and personal!

Roughly how far were you from the group of three buffalo when you took that photo?

And how far from the single one?

curious as to what lenses you were using on these photos.

DT

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Re: Botswana Elephant hunt [Re: 470Nitro]
#77697 - 30/04/07 09:47 PM

Pablo

Excellent photos and great hunt report. Thanks for positing them.

jonathan

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Re: Botswana Elephant hunt [Re: JTOMLINSON]
#77700 - 30/04/07 10:20 PM

Wow!

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Re: Botswana Elephant hunt [Re: 470Nitro]
#77751 - 01/05/07 05:24 AM

What a great hunt! Thanks for sharing. Beautiful photos. Congratulations.

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470Nitro
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Re: Botswana Elephant hunt [Re: Double_Trouble]
#78656 - 15/05/07 12:14 AM

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Great photos 470!.... looks like you saw plenty of game up close and personal!

Roughly how far were you from the group of three buffalo when you took that photo?

And how far from the single one?

curious as to what lenses you were using on these photos.

DT

I used a Panasonic Digital Camera with 12x zoom for both pictures but in one of them had been cutted (that's why is nice to use 8 Mp

). The group was 500 m away while the single one was no more than 40 m.

Those pictures was made in the hunting area, since I made some more in Chobe N.P. obiously easy to take.

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pyramid of cans in the pale moonlight
talkin' 'bout guns and dreamin 'bout women
never had a plan just a livin' for the minute

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Re: Botswana Elephant hunt [Re: 470Nitro]
#78658 - 15/05/07 12:43 AM

very nice shots! .... 40 M is damn close!

DT

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Re: Botswana Elephant hunt [Re: Double_Trouble]
#78671 - 15/05/07 04:07 AM

Those are amazing photos. Thanks for sharing!

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